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Spirit - Sol2000, Congratulations to the MER Teams
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post Aug 23 2009, 02:46 PM
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BTW Stu, I've just checked out your friend's website, his work is absolutely amazing... breathtaking! Thanks for sharing!
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post Aug 26 2009, 02:30 AM
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Is the 3 year anniversary today or tomorrow?
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post Aug 26 2009, 04:11 AM
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The first images were taken in the afternoon of sol 1 so landing + 3 years = 1.656 + 3 * 668.5921 = 2008.4325
So the third anniversary is tomorrow nextersol
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post Aug 26 2009, 05:13 AM
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Three Martian years....it seems like only yestersol when they arrived! laugh.gif
Enjoy.
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post Aug 26 2009, 05:22 AM
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Nice pic Astro0! smile.gif


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post Aug 26 2009, 05:46 PM
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I missed this one in my stats!
3 martian years Total was on Nov 8th 2006 so, this was the half mission date if tomorrow will be the last day.
Edited: BTW, the day after tomorrow will see 4000 Sols Total


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post Sep 2 2009, 01:07 PM
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QUOTE (climber @ Aug 18 2009, 11:52 PM) *
Spirit will do better than Viking 1 on April 28th 2010.
We'll be at VB by then smile.gif


Indeed, Viking 1 landed on 20th July 1976 and operated until November 1982 ( about 76 months = 2253 sols )
To be complete; Viking 2 landed on 03rd September 1976 and operated until April 1980 ( or 1281 sols )...

Both Vikings had a radioisotope thermoelectric generator as power source, so we shouldn't really compare... untill MSL is on Martian soil mars.gif
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post Sep 2 2009, 03:47 PM
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QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Sep 2 2009, 05:07 AM) *
Indeed, Viking 1 landed on 20th July 1976 and operated until November 1982 ( about 76 months )


To be fair, contact was lost due to human operator error on Earth. No fault of the lander.
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post Sep 2 2009, 05:39 PM
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QUOTE (Astro0 @ Aug 26 2009, 06:13 AM) *
Three Martian years....

UMSF b'day cards have been sent smile.gif
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